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Tag Name "Shorter" (180)

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Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.
Andrew Weil
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
Yann Martel
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I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
Zach Condon
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I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.
Sidney Hillman
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If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.
Maya Rudolph
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When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.
Miroslav Vitous
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My research shows that uncertainty about your income at older ages causes more depression, causes more anxiety, which could lead to more chronic heart failure, heart disease, does actually mean shorter lifespans.
Teresa Ghilarducci
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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.
Todd Snider
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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
Naz?m Hikmet
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People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.
Tony Robbins
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Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
Peter Thiel
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.
Phil Elvrum
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Viggo Mortensen
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You're much shorter than my mom. Brat, she said, surprised into a giggle. That's no way to talk to a vampire. Bloodsucking brat. Better he said.
Rachel Caine
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
Vita Sackville-West
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Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.
Richard Hugo
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And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.
William Harvey
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In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
Robert Breault
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I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
Winston Churchill
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